Technician for Reconnaissance Drone System (RDS)

About the job

Emmen | 80-100%

You can contribute in this role

• As an authorised inspection person (certification), certify completed repairs and flight readiness, monitor checks, and manage the handover of aircraft to pilots (team leader)
• Carry out maintenance, repair, and servicing work on the aircraft and flight-relevant ground systems
• Implement configuration changes, adjustment and calibration work including payloads and sensors
• Prepare flight readiness and system re-establishment (including troubleshooting) and administratively plan and manage ground logistics
• Teach as a specialist instructor and maintain technical documents (in English)

What makes you unique

• Vocational training as an automotive mechatronics technician EFZ, automation technician EFZ, polymechanic EFZ or equivalent technical basic training, preferably with a specialisation in aircraft maintenance
• Self-responsibility and absolute reliability
• Open personality with enthusiasm for teamwork
• Oral and written knowledge of a second official language and very good English skills are an advantage

In a nutshell

Do you get excited when you see aircraft? With us, you can work professionally in the field of large-scale unmanned aviation.
As the operational base of the Swiss Air Force, the Emmen/Dübendorf airfield command is responsible for the air force systems at the military airfields Emmen and Dübendorf. Operating and maintaining military aircraft (manned or unmanned) is our mission. Become an important link in this dynamic special discipline, aviation.

What we offer

• Working for Switzerland We are committed to the success model Switzerland and work for the benefit of the population.
• Lived diversity Thanks to equal opportunities, we develop our skills and bring in different perspectives.
• Healthy at the workplace We support and advise our employees in the area of physical and mental health.

All benefits

Your commitment to security and freedom

The Operations Command (Kdo Op) is responsible for all military operations and missions of the Swiss Army. The Kdo Op includes, among others, the Air Force, the Army, the four territorial divisions, the SWISSINT competence centre, the Special Forces Command, and the Military Police. Around 40% of the approximately 2,500 employees are civilian – from engineers to aircraft mechanics to analysts.

The Swiss Army employs over 9,000 people in four military and around 200 civilian professions – at 110 locations throughout Switzerland. The next generation is also taken care of: the Swiss Army trains apprentices in over 30 professions.

Additional information

A position with the Swiss Army makes sense and offers many advantages. Convince yourself at armee.ch/vorteile .


Offers from recruitment agencies will not be considered.

Questions about the position

Mathias Bucher
Head Ground Operations RDS
+41 58 48 05452